| shiny | | |
| adj. | 1. glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny | reflecting light.; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel" |
| ~ bright | emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts.; "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room" |
| adj. | 2. glazed, shiny | having a shiny surface or coating.; "glazed fabrics"; "glazed doughnuts" |
| ~ vitrified, glassy, vitreous | (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it.; "glazed pottery"; "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures" |
| ~ glass-like | resembling glass. |
| ~ calendered, glossy | (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and glossy especially by pressing between rollers.; "calendered paper"; "glossy paper" |
| ~ icy | shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice.; "roads and trees glazed with an icy film" |
| adj. | 3. bright, burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny | made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow.; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny black patents" |
| ~ polished | perfected or made shiny and smooth.; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver" |
| brilliance | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. blaze, brilliance, glare | a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted.; "a glare of sunlight" |
| ~ brightness | the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. brilliance, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, splendor, splendour | the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand.; "for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel"; "his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects"; "it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor"; "an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art"; "advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products" |
| ~ elegance | a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste.; "she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility" |
| ~ eclat | brilliant or conspicuous success or effect.; "the eclat of a great achievement" |
| n. (cognition) | 3. brilliance, genius | unusual mental ability. |
| ~ intelligence | the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience. |
| ~ coruscation | a sudden or striking display of brilliance.; "coruscations of great wit" |
| ~ pyrotechnics | (music) brilliance of display (as in the performance of music). |
| ~ scintillation | a brilliant display of wit. |
| gleam | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. gleam, gleaming, glow, lambency | an appearance of reflected light. |
| ~ effulgence, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine, radiance | the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light. |
| n. (event) | 2. gleam, gleaming, glimmer | a flash of light (especially reflected light). |
| ~ flash | a sudden intense burst of radiant energy. |
| v. (perception) | 3. gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, shine | be shiny, as if wet.; "His eyes were glistening" |
| ~ appear, seem, look | give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time" |
| ~ spangle | glitter as if covered with spangles. |
| ~ shimmer | give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk. |
| v. (perception) | 4. gleam, glimmer | shine brightly, like a star or a light. |
| ~ radiate | cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays.; "The sun is radiating" |
| v. (change) | 5. gleam | appear briefly.; "A terrible thought gleamed in her mind" |
| ~ come along, appear | come into being or existence, or appear on the scene.; "Then the computer came along and changed our lives"; "Homo sapiens appeared millions of years ago" |
| luster | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. brilliancy, luster, lustre, splendor, splendour | a quality that outshines the usual. |
| ~ brightness | the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. luster, lustre, sheen, shininess | the visual property of something that shines with reflected light. |
| ~ effulgence, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine, radiance | the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. luster, lustre | a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain. |
| ~ glaze | a coating for ceramics, metal, etc.. |
| ray | | |
| n. (phenomenon) | 1. beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light | a column of light (as from a beacon). |
| ~ heat ray | a ray that produces a thermal effect. |
| ~ high beam | the beam of a car's headlights that provides distant illumination. |
| ~ light, visible light, visible radiation | (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation.; "the light was filtered through a soft glass window" |
| ~ moon-ray, moon ray, moonbeam | a ray of moonlight. |
| ~ sunbeam, sunray | a ray of sunlight. |
| ~ laser beam | a beam of light generated by a laser. |
| ~ low beam | the beam of a car's headlights that provides illumination for a short distance. |
| n. (plant) | 2. ray | a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence. |
| ~ pedicel, pedicle | a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle. |
| n. (shape) | 3. ray | (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point. |
| ~ math, mathematics, maths | a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement. |
| ~ vector | a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction. |
| n. (phenomenon) | 4. beam, electron beam, ray | a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation. |
| ~ cathode ray | a beam of electrons emitted by the cathode of an electrical discharge tube. |
| ~ electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, nonparticulate radiation | radiation consisting of waves of energy associated with electric and magnetic fields resulting from the acceleration of an electric charge. |
| ~ particle beam | a collimated flow of particles (atoms or electrons or molecules). |
| n. (communication) | 5. ray, re | the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization. |
| ~ solfa syllable | one of the names for notes of a musical scale in solmization. |
| n. (animal) | 6. ray | any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish. |
| ~ spine | a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin. |
| ~ fin | organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals. |
| n. (animal) | 7. ray | cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins. |
| ~ elasmobranch, selachian | any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks; rays; skates. |
| ~ crampfish, electric ray, numbfish, torpedo | any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges. |
| ~ sawfish | primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout. |
| ~ guitarfish | primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body. |
| ~ stingray | large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds. |
| ~ eagle ray | powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for `soaring' by flapping winglike fins; usually harmless but has venomous tissue near base of the tail as in stingrays. |
| ~ manta ray, manta, devilfish | extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned. |
| ~ skate | large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins. |
| v. (weather) | 8. ray | emit as rays.; "That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky" |
| ~ give out, emit, give off | give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc..; "The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits" |
| v. (stative) | 9. radiate, ray | extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center.; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiate spines in all directions" |
| ~ extend, run, lead, pass, go | stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point.; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets" |
| v. (change) | 10. irradiate, ray | expose to radiation.; "irradiate food" |
| ~ bombard | direct high energy particles or radiation against. |
| ~ process, treat | subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition.; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals"; "treat an oil spill" |
| shine | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine | the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light. |
| ~ brightness | the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white. |
| ~ gleam, lambency, gleaming, glow | an appearance of reflected light. |
| ~ sheen, shininess, luster, lustre | the visual property of something that shines with reflected light. |
| ~ burnish, glossiness, polish, gloss | the property of being smooth and shiny. |
| v. (weather) | 2. reflect, shine | be bright by reflecting or casting light.; "Drive carefully--the wet road reflects" |
| ~ resplend | be resplendent or radiant; to shine brightly.; "The Queen's garments resplended in velvet and jewels" |
| ~ glare | be sharply reflected.; "The moon glared back at itself from the lake's surface" |
| ~ opalesce | reflect light or colors like an opal.; "Distant clouds opalesce like pale brocade"; "raindrops caught in a sunbeam seem to opalesce" |
| ~ luminesce | be or become luminescent; exhibit luminescence. |
| ~ coruscate, sparkle, scintillate | reflect brightly.; "Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside" |
| ~ give out, emit, give off | give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc..; "The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits" |
| v. (weather) | 3. beam, shine | emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light.; "The sun shone bright that day"; "The fire beamed on their faces" |
| ~ beat down | shine hard.; "The sun beat down on the hikers" |
| ~ beacon | shine like a beacon. |
| ~ glare | shine intensely.; "The sun glared down on us" |
| ~ flame, flare | shine with a sudden light.; "The night sky flared with the massive bombardment" |
| ~ outshine | shine brighter than.; "What star outshines the sun?" |
| ~ shimmer | shine with a weak or fitful light.; "Beech leaves shimmered in the moonlight" |
| ~ flicker, flick | shine unsteadily.; "The candle flickered" |
| ~ blaze | shine brightly and intensively.; "Meteors blazed across the atmosphere" |
| ~ winkle, twinkle, scintillate | emit or reflect light in a flickering manner.; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?" |
| ~ burn, glow | shine intensely, as if with heat.; "The coals were glowing in the dark"; "The candles were burning" |
| v. (stative) | 4. shine | be distinguished or eminent.; "His talent shines" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (stative) | 5. shine | be clear and obvious.; "A shining example" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (perception) | 6. beam, glow, radiate, shine | have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink.; "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna" |
| ~ appear, seem, look | give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time" |
| v. (weather) | 7. shine | throw or flash the light of (a lamp).; "Shine the light on that window, please" |
| ~ beam, shine | emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light.; "The sun shone bright that day"; "The fire beamed on their faces" |
| v. (stative) | 8. fall, shine, strike | touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly.; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears" |
| ~ come about, hap, happen, occur, take place, go on, fall out, pass off, pass | come to pass.; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
| v. (emotion) | 9. beam, glow, radiate, shine | experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion.; "She was beaming with joy"; "Her face radiated with happiness" |
| ~ feel, experience | undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind.; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret" |
| v. (contact) | 10. polish, shine, smooth, smoothen | make (a surface) shine.; "shine the silver, please"; "polish my shoes" |
| ~ beautify, fancify, prettify, embellish | make more beautiful. |
| ~ simonise, simonize | polish with wax.; "The motorcycle has been Simonized" |
| ~ sleek, slick | make slick or smooth. |
| ~ burnish, furbish, buff | polish and make shiny.; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes" |
| ~ rub | move over something with pressure.; "rub my hands"; "rub oil into her skin" |
| ~ gloss | give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing. |
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